Casino City's iGaming Pocket Directory - 2015 Edition

109 Sponsored by Visit iGamingPocketDirectory.com for more information. united states The only online gaming activity Nevada regulates is online poker. Other forms of online gaming – with the exception of betting on horse races -- remain illegal in Nevada. Between Dec. 1, 2013 and Nov. 30, 2014, Nevada online gaming sites generated $9,955,000 in gaming revenue. One online gaming company, Ultimate Gaming, closed in 2014. Ultimate Gaming was the first company to launch an online poker room in Nevada (Ultimate Poker) in April 2013. It also operated both an online poker room and online casino in New Jersey. The year 2013 will always be a landmark year in American online gaming history. Just as 2006 (the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) and 2011 (Black Friday indictments of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and UB/Absolute Poker) will always be remembered, so will 2013 – because that is the year New Jersey, Delaware and Nevada began regulating intrastate online gambling. That’s gambling contained by the borders of one state. Gambling that includes wagers that cross state lines (interstate) – with the exceptions of fantasy sports and horse racing – remains illegal. US law currently allows states to form compacts – which are essentially agreements between two individual states. The lotteries in the US use compacts to share player liquidity and build massive jackpots. The same would be true in poker. Players in Delaware would be allowed to compete against players in a state that has signed a compact with Delaware. The compact would govern issues like regulation and taxation. The road to permitting intrastate online gambling has been a long and winding one. The chief obstacle to intrastate online gambling has been the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) interpretation of the Wire Act. The Wire Act was enacted in 1961 to prevent bookmakers from accepting sports bets over the telephone. But for years, the DOJ maintained the Wire Act prohibited all forms of Internet gambling, while online gaming proponents maintained the Wire Act only applied to sports betting. The DOJ’s position prevented the domestic growth of online gaming in the US, although jurisdictions outside the US offered real-money play to American residents. But in 2011, the DOJ reversed its long-held position that all forms of online gambling were illegal because they violated the Wire Act. In a letter released on December 23, 2011, the DOJ said the law applied only to sports betting, and intrastate gaming outside of sports betting did not violate the law. Gambling across state borders, say between poker players in California and Nevada, remained illegal, according to the DOJ. 2011 also saw the DOJ indict the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker/UB. The charges, most of which have been settled, resulted in the forfeitures